If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
Ralph EllisonIf you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.
Ralph Ellison